St. Alexis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFGF HIDIJKLK MNONBGPG QRSRTUHU BCDCEFGF| Patron of Beggars | A |
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| We who beg for bread as we daily tread | B |
| Country lane and city street | C |
| Let us kneel and pray on the broad highway | D |
| To the saint with the vagrant feet | C |
| Our altar light is a buttercup bright | E |
| And our shrine is a bank of sod | F |
| But still we share St Alexis' care | G |
| The Vagabond of God | F |
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| They gave him a home in purple Rome | H |
| And a princess for his bride | I |
| But he rowed away on his wedding day | D |
| Down the Tiber's rushing tide | I |
| And he came to land on the Asian strand | J |
| Where the heathen people dwell | K |
| As a beggar he strayed and he preached and prayed | L |
| And he saved their souls from hell | K |
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| Bowed with years and pain he came back again | M |
| To his father's dwelling place | N |
| There was none to see who this tramp might be | O |
| For they knew not his bearded face | N |
| But his father said Give him drink and bread | B |
| And a couch underneath the stair | G |
| So Alexis crept to his hole and slept | P |
| But he might not linger there | G |
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| For when night came down on the seven hilled town | Q |
| And the emperor hurried in | R |
| Saying Lo I hear that a saint is near | S |
| Who will cleanse us of our sin | R |
| Then they looked in vain where the saint had lain | T |
| For his soul had fled afar | U |
| From his fleshly home he had gone to roam | H |
| Where the gold paved highways are | U |
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| We who beg for bread as we daily tread | B |
| Country lane and city street | C |
| Let us kneel and pray on the broad highway | D |
| To the saint with the vagrant feet | C |
| Our altar light is a buttercup bright | E |
| And our shrine is a bank of sod | F |
| But still we share St Alexis' care | G |
| The Vagabond of God | F |
Joyce Kilmer
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